A History of Harrow School 1324-1991

Christopher Tyerman

This is the first modern history of one of the most famous schools in the English-speaking world. It takes an even-handed approach, covering the schools failings as well as its successes. It includes frank discussions of Harrow's financial, educational, and sexual scandals along with a survey of its many great moments as the school of Byron, Churchill (and six other prime ministers), and Nehru.

A History of Harrow School 1324-1991

Christopher Tyerman

Description

This is the first modern history of one of the most famous schools in the English-speaking world. It takes an even-handed approach, covering the schools failings as well as its successes. It includes frank discussions of Harrow's financial, educational, and sexual scandals along with a survey of its many great moments as the school of Byron, Churchill (and six other prime ministers), and Nehru.

A History of Harrow School 1324-1991

Christopher Tyerman

Reviews and Awards

"After reading this splendid new history of Harrow, the first in half a century, and the first to approach its subject in a completely dispassionate manner, one wonders if Christopher Tyerman will face the same heated reaction Lunn did three generations ago...A History of Harrow School will serve as a model for future educational historians...The real strength of this wonderful book lies in its treatment of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...[A] well-written and extensively researched book."--History: Reviews of New Books